I am a mom of 3 beautiful kids. Marley has autism and left hemiparesis Cerebral Palsy. Skylar has recovered from sensory processing disorder and my boy, Xander, is neurotypical with severe, life-threatening food allergies.

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Since it has been about a year
since we started on our journey with homeopathy, I figured it is good to sit
back & reflect on just how far we have come in a year.

A year ago, at age 3 1/2, my
youngest was severely allergic to seemingly everything.Foods, heat, emotions….even his own
tears.He was anaphylactic to dairy,
eggs, peanuts, tree nuts and rashed terribly with gluten. There were a host of new foods showing up on his allergy testing each year. In all honesty, I was deathly afraid of what
each day would bring.We could not make
it to breakfast without Zyrtec.Any high
histamine food (oranges, tomatoes, avocados, strawberries) would send him into
coughing fits and he was covered in eczema.Oh yes…and did I mention the eye itching?Oh my goodness the eye itching!The boy needed a cool washcloth over his eyes
at all times of the day.I was afraid he
would hurt his eyes with amount of itching he did.And forget it if he started to cry…..he was
allergic to his own tears!If he got
upset (and what toddler doesn’t), he would get hives all around his eyes that
itched like mad.And if he ran outside
in the heat, he broke out into an itchy rash.He had cholinergic urticaria for which the allergists advised me to
increase his daily antihistamine.We
had to leave several outings to come home & get him in a cool bath.He was miserable.Our family was at it wits end.

Enter
homeopathy.

I needed something that was not
allergenic and very gentle.He was
already on a great diet since he is allergic to most allergens anyway and we are a very low sugar, no chemicals kind of family.Since allergies are a sign of the immune
system gone awry, I needed something to help regulate it and bring his body
into balance again.I found a local
homeopath that specializes in allergies via a dear friend and I considered it was
worth a try.

As I pulled up to his little quaint office and walked inside with my son, I found myself thinking “Please
don’t be a witchdoctor!Please don’t be
a witchdoctor!”I had no idea what to
expect.This homeopath was very gentle
and sweet and I felt immediately at ease but the intake appointment was like
nothing I had experienced before.The
questions were unexpected.He asked
about my son's ailments and the timeline in detail.But he also asked about my son’s feelings,
his demeanor, what he liked and disliked. Did he do better at the ocean or
worse?Did he tend to be cold or
hot?Did he like being held or not?This was a whole new experience for me.

I walked out of
there very skeptical that there was anything this man could actually do for my
son.However, the hopeful side of me
remained willing to try.After two
grueling hours of detailed questions, the homeopath gave me a remedy to try
with Xander.He said give only one
dose.A total of two tiny drops.No follow-up doses until Xander's body did
what it needed to do with the remedy.Until his body had taken healing as far as it could with this
remedy.The homeopath warned me that
sometimes you might see a very mild exacerbation of symptoms before you see
healing.This should be very short-lived
and anything over a day should warrant a different remedy.

I went home and
gave Xander 2 drops of his first ever remedy.He got mild hives within 20 minutes of taking the remedy so I dosed
Benadryl and waited.By the next
morning, he still needed Zyrtec as he started to rash up and get itchy before breakfast…as
usual.BUT….by third day, he did not
rash before breakfast.Or….anytime at
all during the day.And that was the end
of our love affair with Zyrtec.Just
like that…..we no longer required daily Zyrtec with a splash of Benadryl added
in here & there when needed.

I walked back into
the homeopath’s office and said, “Okay.You have my attention.Tell me
more about this homeopathy stuff.”

This is not to say
his allergies are all gone……he still has severe food allergies, but we are continuing
to work on it.He no longer hives when
he cries.He can once again eat
strawberries and oranges and chocolate….and other high histamine foods.His color is much better.He is no longer horribly pale.

As symptoms pop up,
we address them.

My once chronically
constipated little boy that alternated between loose stools and tiny ball poops
and proclaimed by the ped GI doc to be "full of stool" according to
his KUB is now regular due to ONE remedy.After we solved that problem, he was finally potty-trained within a
month.

He was getting
nightmares and could not sleep through the night without screaming out for
someone to come into his room and he was terrified for us to leave.After a few weeks of my sleeping with him… in
his room… in his tiny twin bed and pure exhaustion, another call to the
homeopath gave us a remedy to help him sleep through the night.THAT was most welcome.

Then he started
getting chronic, daily bloody noses.After many home remedies failed, the pediatrician said we needed to see
the ENT.The ENT said steroid nasal
spray indefinitely. One call to the
homeopath and he said "we can stop bloody noses". I was skeptical but
indeed…..after we tried a few different remedies, we hit on one that
worked.To be fair, the bloody noses
have come back twice, but each time, the homeopath has given me a new remedy
and it has worked.Unbelievable. No steroids needed.

Around the holidays, he got sick with a cold and it was
quickly followed by ear pain and a fever.I know how antibiotics can ruin gut flora and I have seen many kids’
immune systems get crushed by using them, so I try to avoid them as much as
humanly possible.But when your child is
crying in pain, you get scared.It was
6pm on a Friday night.I called the
homeopath.He gave me a remedy to
try.I had to run out to the store and
buy it.I did not treat his fever as
that is the body’s way of burning off the infection.We gave him the remedy and put him to bed.I checked on him at 10pm, and he was sleeping
soundly and the fever was gone.He awoke
with no pain at all and his nose started running…. relieving all that pressure.

The same thing happened while we were on vacation.My son woke in the middle of the night with
ear pain.This time, he had different
symptoms.No fever and acted
differently, so he got a different remedy the next morning when I talked to the
homeopath.Thankfully, I had my
homeopathic kit.The first recommended
remedy did not work.He tugged on his
ear all day.The second remedy was
perfect and the ear infection was gone and drainage started.

Last summer, he had a bad rash on his lower legs.Thankfully, the homeopath gave me a remedy
and within a week, it was much better.Here is the rash before treatment:

And this picture is one week after a remedy to treat it:

These are just a few examples of what homeopathy has done for us.

WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY?
Homeopathy is the theory of “like treats like”.It is
based on theideathatsubstancesthatproducesymptoms of sickness in healthypeoplewillhave a healingeffectwhen you give
them in verydilutequantities to sickpeoplewhoexhibitthosesamesymptoms.Those very dilute quantities of substances
are called remedies.Remedies are meant
to spark the body’s own healing processes and bring the body back to
homeostasis.

Remedies are very specific to the individual and that is why using a homeopath
to pick the correct remedies for you is very helpful and the only way to go if
you are dealing with a chronic condition like allergies or asthma.

We have found homeopathy can be a lot of hit or miss. You can miss a few times trying to find the right remedy...but when you find it, it is like you have won the lottery. It is amazing to see.

You are not supposed to touch the remedies.Just dump it into your mouth and suck or dilute it in water and give a few drops of water. They are
sugar pellets sprayed with the remedy, so touching it may rub off the effect.

This healing journey has taken us many places and I am so grateful it led us to
homeopathy.I don’t want to imagine
where we would be without it.

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I am a mom on a mission to bring our daughter back to us from the grips of autism. This journey has shown me the importance of nutrition and supplementation in ASD kids, detoxification, green living and a great support system for healing. I have learned many lessons...some the hard way and I have created this blog to help anyone who may be interested in the lessons we have learned.